Yarra Valley Gourmet Small-Group Ecotour from Melbourne

Great package of sight-seeing locales with wineries, cheese making, fruit market, chocolatier, and generally just a great tour. Graham was an excellent driver. Only minor criticism I would offer was that at lunch, it was a very large venue (Di Bartoli Winery I think), with a large group there being very noisy. Took away from an excellent experience. Would rate this 9.5 out of 10. For those concerned about impact of bush fires in this area, was absolutely no evidence of that.

The "small" group was over 20 people. Although we booked early, we got the sense that this was an add on. The tour director was personable but knew little to nothing about the tour stops. Too much time was spent at places trying to sell us things including an average small fruit stand, a sub standard cheese factory and a high price tourist driven chocolate store. The gourmet meal looked pretty but it was mass produced for tours probably serving more than a thousand. Our food had limited courses and was not properly prepared. The choice of wine with the meal was one red or white - both low end. The two times we were given the option to taste included wine on our own, the choices were very limited. I had expected to purchase wine but only had the opportunity to sample other than what was shown at two wineries. Did not find a wine I really liked and was shocked to hear that the tour ended without being comparable to previous wine tours we had experienced.

Rated very highly. Juliet was an excellent tour guide, fun and friendly. A very worthwhile experience.

This tour was incredible! Our tour guide Gary was friendly, approachable and a fountain of knowledge. Would definitely do this tour again and highly recommend it to anyone wanting to taste and learn about the flavours of the Yarra Valley.

A tour guy named Felix is awesome! Safe drive, nice talk, perfect services. Definitely I want to go with him if I take another tour at Go West.

Ricky was an amazing driver/guide. Wide variety of stops. Great background on the area. Small group worked well. Highly recommended

Garry was an excellent guide and very knowledgeable. Tour was great every stop was interesting, just felt it was a little rushed. Not enough time to soak in the area - which was so breathtakingly stunning.

Nathan is a great guide cum driver. A very well organised and punctual trip . We totally enjoyed ourselves.

We went on this tour on a Sunday and the Yarra Valley was very busy, complete with road closure and detour so I would chose a different day of the week. The organic farm stop was the best one. At the chocolate stop we had a private room with an excellent commentator but it was very rushed and the store and grounds were packed and crowded. The winery stops were all nicely done.

The tour was interesting and well done by Rachel, however the bus was terrible. We got stuck in the back seats of the bus. The bus was no where near state of the art, seats were small with tall backs and the visibility was very limited. The bus was so noisy couldn’t hear the guide much of the time.Wouldn’t do again.